Tracing Guccifer 2.0's Many Tentacles in the 2016 Election

[DonViejo]

By David E. Sanger, Jim Rutenberg and Eric Lipton
July 15, 2018

The message from WikiLeaks in July 2016 to a group of Russian intelligence officers who prosecutors say were posing as a Romanian hacker named Guccifer 2.0 urged swift action before the opening of the Democratic National Convention that month.

“If you have anything hillary related we want it in the next tweo days prefable because the DNC is approaching,” the error-ridden message read. “and she will solidify bernie supporters behind her after.”

WikiLeaks had begun seeking stolen files from Guccifer 2.0 weeks earlier, after revelations that the Democratic National Committee’s server had been hacked, according to private messages cited in an indictment filed Friday by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. The organization had told Guccifer that publishing the stolen material on the WikiLeaks site will “have a much higher impact than what you are doing.”

But WikiLeaks’ administrators, including Julian Assange, its founder, did not know what was in the trove — they were simply seeking anything that would widen the divisions inside the party between supporters of Hillary Clinton and those of Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who had also sought the nomination.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/politics/guccifer-russia-mueller.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Julian Assange, foreign national (Australian), attacking US democratic processes. Non-state actor.nt

[FM123]

2. Here in FL we are thinking it was probably DeSantis, Curbelo or Mast asking for Russian help

"The indictment mentions that Guccifer 2.0 had sent some documents to a lobbyist in Florida, which had been previously reported. But it also reveals that a congressional candidate whom it did not name connected with the operatives, looking for stolen documents about a political opponent, which were then sent."